They are discriminated against based on their being more free agents, less indentured slaves.

Workers on H1Bs are not free to change jobs and are wholly dependent on their employer in order to remain in the US. That gives sweat shops like Infosys enormous control over these employees. They can abuse them pretty much any way they like with impunity.

Where do you idiots come from? Ayn Rand didn't die in any sort of poverty, her books are STILL best-sellers on Amazon 60 years after they were first published. She never relied on the state for income (or remotely needed to) that's as much of an utter fabrication as the first ridiculous allegation. And given that she was forced to fork over hundreds of thousand of dollars in taxes to pay for (among other things, like wars) a public healthcare system, she had every right to then avail of it.

One of my clients signed up with Dellhost (Dell's hosting service), attracted, no-doubt, by Dell's big-name reputation, and it turned out to be quite an unpleasant experience.

I ran up against a bunch of pretty clueless and very stuck up sysadmins who were trying to tell me through many HTML formatted (ick!) mails that though theoretically the server was mine and I could do what I wanted with it, in practice if I tried to wipe out their RH install and put in Debian, then:

1. It was not allowed and they would not let me do it.

2. If I tried I would probably fuck it up 'cos they had custom ethernet hardware and then I'd have to pay them $150 per hour to reinstall RH.

3. If I did manage it they would not support the box except to restore it to factory defaults and wipe out my OS and all my data.

I ignored them and did it anyway and then I got a mail from them complaining that I'd blocked their backdoor sysadmin access port and telling us that now they had no way to take backups (which we had not asked them to take) and basically complaining that we'd shut them out of the server and that they would reboot it into single user mode to get root on it. I didn't even grace all this shit with a reply.

There are a whole bunch of hosting services but I'd try to avoid things like DellHost or Gateway-Hosting (though I haven't tried this one) where the company's primary biz is making boxes. They will tend to have clueless sysadmins.

As I admin a few boxes from halfway around the globe, I am always on the watch for cool services like a remote console and remote hard reboot features. I heard of a company offering these but I lost the URL. I'd love to have services like that.